[ayers]

Keeping your skills current is probably the most important point here. Could you please explain when you do this. Are you in a job that allows this within production projects? Or is this all on your own time outside of your day job? I know some companies run internal projects with the specific aim to help upskill employees in new technology.

[mindcrime]

At this exact moment, I'm fortunate enough to have a dayjob where I get to do a lot of different things and learn new technologies, etc. But in the past, when I didn't have that option, I just worked on my own open source project(s) and did stuff at night and on weekends, to fill that void.